Steven Barnes Biography
Steven Barnes is an American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer. He’s authored novels, short stories, television screenplays, comic book scripts, animations, newspaper copy, and magazine pieces.
Steven Barnes Age
He was born on 1 March 1952, in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Barnes is 71 years old as of March 2023.
Steven Barnes Education
He received a diversified education, including a secondary school at Los Angeles High School. He continued his studies at Pepperdine University, focusing in communication arts.
Steven Barnes Wife
Barnes is married to Tananarive Due, a writer. The duo lives in Los Angeles and has a video blog together. They also taught a seminar together at UCLA called “The Sunken Place: Racism, Survival & Black Horror” that had an unexpected visit from Get Out. Together they have two children, Jason Barnes, Nicki Barnes.
Steven Barnes Career
Barnes authored numerous episodes for The Outer Limits and Baywatch. His “A Stitch In Time” episode of The Outer Limits received an Emmy award. He also penned the Stargate SG-1 episode “Brief Candle” as well as the Andromeda episode “The Sum of Its Parts”. Barnes’ first published work of fiction, the 1979 novelette “The Locusts,” was co-written with Larry Niven and received a Hugo Award nomination. Barnes later worked with Niven on various additional projects, including three volumes with Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Barnes said he disagreed politically with the two conservative writers but enjoyed working with them, calling it “a tremendous learning opportunity”. Barnes’ alternate history novel Lion’s Blood received the 2003 Endeavour Award. His 2004 Star Wars tie-in novel, The Cestus Deception.
Barnes enjoys martial and physical arts. He started studying in 1969. He holds a black belt in both Kenpo Karate (BKF style) and Kodokan Judo. He holds a Wu Ming Ta instructor credential and is a Filipino Kali stick and knife fighting instructor candidate. He is an accomplished student of Jun Fan kickboxing (Bruce Lee method under Dan Inosanto) and teaches Wu-style tai chi under Hawkins Cheung. He is an intermediate student of self-defense pistol shooting (he prefers the Turnipseed modified Weaver method). He has a brown belt in Shorenji Jiu Jitsu and intermediate rank in Tae Kwon Do and Aikido. He completed the Yoga Works basic Hatha Yoga teaching program and is studying Pentjak Silat.
Steven Barnes Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.